The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-08-27
News of the Week.

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Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the United
States Fish Commission, died at Woods Holl,
Massachusetts, on Friday of last week.
-Four hundred acres of land in California
have been purchased by a party of Japanese,
who think seriously of converting itinto tea
farm.
During colored church supper at Savan-
nah, on Saturday night, VIM. Taylor muir
dered Anthony Charlton by cutting his throat
with a razor.
Six of the rescurers of Senator Ridleberger
have been indicted by the grand jury of Shen-
andoah county, and the cases will come up
for trial at the October term.
President Cleveland will go TO Philadelphia
on the 18th of September to attend the cen
tennial constitutional celebration. He will
probably be accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland
During baseball game near Pooleville,
Madison county, N. Y, on Monday, Otto
Bronson, Is years old, was struck on the
temple by ball and almost instantly killed.
The village of Degraff, in Logan county,
Ohio, containing 1900 inhabitants, had its bust
ness section nearly destroyed by fire on Satur
day night. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Our total exports of merchandise during
the twelve months which ended on July 3lst
last were valued at SIP, 768, $50, against
$685., ST. ,975 during the twelve months pre-
ceding.
The total number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States during July from
the principal foreign countries Canada and
Mexico excepted) was $1,000, against 81. 34S
in July, 1885.
Texas fever has broken out in several herds
of cattle in Lampeter township, Lancaster
county, Pa, and a number of animals have
died. The disease was brought from the
West by stock cattle.
The first new syrup from Louisiana cane OF
this seasons crop was received in New Or,
leans on Monday from New Iberia, and sold
for rs cents per gallon. This is the earliest
receipt of syrup on record.
3 Two large barns owned by William Mics Il
Sons, at Hastings, Minnesota, were consumed
by lightning on Sunday night. Twenty Nor
man horses we're burned to death. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000.
During some athletic sports at picnic at
North Adams, Massachusetts,, on Saturday,
platform holding 200 people fell to the ground,
a distance of twenty feet. Many persons
were injured, but none dangerously.
Bradford Burrell, who shot young woman
named Kerrigan, in Lowell, Massachusetts,
last week, because she refused further COM
partnership with him, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his cell on Saturday night.
The woman will recover.
On Friday night of last week Alonzo Kelly,
son of Postmaster John E. Kelly, of Black
lick, Pa, twelve miles from Indiana, fatally
shot Charles Rodgers, burglar, who was
caught in the act of robbing the postoliice.
Young Kelly sleeps above the postoffice.
John Yost, Sr, 92 years old, on Saturday
made an unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide by jumping into the Whiskimisky creek,
Just on the outskirts ofReading, Pa. He said
that he had passed ninety-two years and that
life was burden. He is said to be the Oldest
brewer in the State.
Louis de Bech, the ''post trader" at the
Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard, has fallen
heir to fortune of over one million dollars,
being his portion of an estate valued ut g.,
600 900 guilders left by his aunt in Java,
which is to be divided among seventeen
nephews and nieces.
A recent disaster on the Naugatuck Rail-
road, at the Barnham street grade crossing in
Waterbury, Connecticut, causing the death of
Patrick Stapleton, driver of funeral coach,
and dangerous injuries to the occupants, has
resulted in suits for damages, aggregating $780,
00e against the company.
OlaTleS L. MllleTy eil-kHOHu ldW1tT VI
New York, and his wife, died at their sum
mer home in New London, Connecticut, on
Friday of last week. Mr.. Miller was attacked
with pneumonia about the first of the month,
and his wife contracted the disease little
more than a week before his death.
A storm of unusual violence ragged on Sat
urday along the North Carolina coast. At
Kitty Hawk the apparatus for measuring the
force of the wind at the Signal Station was
blown away, and the observer estimates the
velocity of the wind at 122 miles an hour,
Several vessels are known to have been dam
aged, and two steamers and tug are reported
ashore at different points.
Col. Samuel Shock, president of the Co.
lumbia National Bank, at Columbia, Pa, is
is now the Oldest bank president in this coun-
try. He was ninety years old in May last,
and was elected cashier of the bank in Co.
lumbia and became its presidentin 1873. He
attends to all the routine business of his bust
ness, never leaving the bank till the last &C.
count is closed.
During the sham battle at the reunion of
the Eighty-seventh Illinois Veterans, at En-
field, illinois, on Friday of last week, two
canuons were prematurely discharged. G.
Sullenger had both arms blown off, and will
probably die. The others injured were Jas.
Crockett, Robert johnson, Irwin Reeder,
Vim. Daniels and Emanuel Berry. They are
badly lacerated and burned, but will, it is
thought, recover.
A telegram from Knoxville, Tenn, says
that careful enumeration, completed on
Saturday, shows that the population of that
city is 36,707, an increase of nearly 400 per
cent over the population shown by the Federal
census of 1880. Knoxville contains 26, 9G5
white inhabitants and 9,742 colored. This is
said to be the largest proportion of white
population of any city in the South.
E. Watkins, lawyer and real estate opera
tor, of Chattanooga, Tenn, states that the
mineral and manufacturing development i'll
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia is more
marked at present than ever before, and that
the crops throughout the South are better
than for the past thirty years. Six lines of
railway now cater Chattanooga, and two 9TH
ers are being pushed to completion, one to
Columbus, Ca, via Rome, and the other to
Augusta, GA.
terrific hail storm swept over Atchison,
Kansas, on Saturday afternoon. Many of
the hailstQnes measured 9 and 10 inches in
circumference, and several thousand dollars
worth of glass in windows in houses, stores
and churches having a northerly exposure
was smashed. The storm was general through
out Northern Kansas. Cars ON railroad trains
arriving at Atchison had their windows on the
north side broken. A passenger in one of
them had the bridge of bis nose fattened by
hailstone.
Near Marion, Indiana, on Monday, Reece
Hulinger descended into 30-foot well and
bored for gas, while Christopher Sisson work
ed the windlass. A sudden flow OF gas over
came Hulinger, and Sisson, going into the
we'll to rescue him, both persisted from suffo-
cation. Later in the day, an undertaken,
named Buchanan, who started out to prepare
the bodies for burial, became the victim of q
runaway accident, and his recovery is doubt
full.
A meeting of Socialists was held in Cooper
Union, New York, on Monday night, to de-
nounce Henry George and his party. The
hall was crowded, and the proceedings were
very enthusiastic, every mention of Henry